504 pages
English language
Published Nov. 16, 2010 by Ecco.
Kissing the mask
beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines
William T. Vollmann: Kissing the mask (2010, Ecco)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-122848-3
- OCLC Number:
- 419855470
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Explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries and extracts the secrets of staged femininity and the mystery of perceived and expressed beauty.
Subjects
- Women in the theater
- Gender identity in the theater
- Nō
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Sex role in the theater
- Femininity
- Geishas
- Kabuki
Places
- Japan